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But it starts with the NLDS. It does starts with
a victory over the Padres. In the NLDS.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
The stakes are very high, very high, Dodgers versus Padres.
It's a real butthole clincher. Don Martin, is he cutting
short his vacation or is he just naturally returning like
he was gonna.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
He's still on vacation through the weekend.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Reassimilating mysel. Oh so he's not.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
So he's not gonna be there on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
He was gonna do the seating chart. Who's gonna do
the seating chart? For all the advertised for the La
City Fortisers advertisering. Who's gonna do it?
Speaker 4 (02:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
I'm just gonna have to figure it out when you
get in there, First come, first serve.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Maybe I don't like the cats. I like it. Ga,
we're going to the.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Well.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
There's a fight.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Did you guys do general admission for the Swede? I
was told the Toyota people were crushed up against the wall.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Yeah we did, Boss, we did Ga. We had them
all line up outside the door, and then we just
opened the door and they rushed like it was a
Coles on Black Friday.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Colleen from zinc Sushi was fighting for her life. Well,
I don't know what's gonna happen. Uh? Can we even
play a baseball game without Don Martin in town? I
mean are we able to do?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
I think instead of the purshoot we go double dogs
and wings. You know, no purshoot plate, no fruit plate.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Where's my pursuit?
Speaker 3 (02:51):
We didn't do the purshoot boss, we did double dogs
and wings. Instead. We have one pizza for two hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Full music at noon, I mean hopeful music, a new
that it's worth.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
It's a real kick in the nuts.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Sports every dollar?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
How much is this one hundred dollars?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
How much as it costs a makeup ezz.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
About four dollars? Explain the up chokes because I see
right here it says it's one hundred dollars. Yes, that's correct.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
For as we're hopeful that it works out one way
or another on Saturday without our boss. Who's your boss?
Speaker 4 (03:37):
He just picture on vacation right now? Like do we
really have to see that?
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Let's just go home, right.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
I've seen the colors change so many times the last
few days. On Saturday, are you going Kate's I think
I'll be out there Saturday pre game from the studio,
but I think I'm gonna make my way out there
for the kid.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Is gonna go in on your media pass and just
work your way into suite.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Oh yeah, pulling my way in.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
I mean I'm gonna buy dude. I might do the
same thing, Matt.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Go nudge passing over and tell them what you did
to Pete Rose.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
I'll never forgive you.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
I'm never gonna forgive you pass.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
It's a Fox game. So our friend Joe Davis and
John smoltzeb Be on the call.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
What that's exciting? Yeah? There, all right. So we got
a lot going on, but the stakes are very high.
They're the Daniel Jeremiah factor. There's the whole let's go
Goose back back back, Philly back factor. There is the
fact that the Dodgers and the Padres met under similar
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circumstances a few years back, and we're destroyed. The Dodgers
have taken strides this year, great stride, some say, to
make sure that the team has more of a together
arms locked in unison if you will, Matt type of
vibe going down to San Diego and staying up here
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and watching TV together. I like his slapping hands and
as Joe Grande said, breaking bread, breaking bread man, they're
doing a lot of that. Gotta break bread, gotta break
bread man.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
I would love to know who's orchestrating that because there
is no Justin Turner on the team to you know,
text everybody and get everybody together. Who's the one leading
all this?
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Bruce Star gret.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Role makes sense?
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Makes sense? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Really, the Bazuka, he's the Bazuka. He sends out Bazuka
tests exactly Bazuka of texts. So we will talk to
David Vasse in the very next segment about what's going
on with the azul Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
I like him in five.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah, Vic picked the Dodgers in five.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
If that's uh, I thought he would have picked him
in two. Is they're not even gonna play a food
Is that?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Is that a shot on their lack of understanding of
the format yesterday.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
That we attack multiple levels.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yeah, we attacked kind of viciously in the first segment
of yesterday, but today is a flex show. We have
Thursday Night football coming up, which is Buccaneers and Falcons.
We will have the Matt Smith NFL Three Things Thursday.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
I believes ones.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
You're not gonna go baseball today because of the palpable baseball.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
If I'm buying cards on the table, face up. I
just figured with a four hour show tomorrow from the Dodger.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Stadium, right because the game isn't tomorrow, the game is Saturday.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
It's like, we got four hours vassay from the stadium.
I figured he's gonna want to clearly seam headed hard.
Kate's gonna be there. Maybe we have access to the field.
So I was like, I think tomorrow is going to
be a big Dodger blowout. Let's get to some of
these great stories we've been sitting on all week because
we've been talking a ton of ton of baseball, even
though our boss is out of town and can't yell
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at us for not talking Dodger.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
So we will have some NFL conversation in the second hour.
We'll do the college football whip around. Flack in our
final hour, will do that dead and Alive quick Hits
and all that stuff. And David Vasse is at Dodger
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Stadium because they're having some kind of workout, but I
guess there's also a walk through or some kind of
thing tomorrow where the show will be at Dodger Stadium.
I have to work, but Matt and Dave will be
at and Kate's and Craig the Ratman, Willard's the rat Ben,
the two of us, they will all be at Dodger
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Stadium Kate's. Do we have an update on exactly what
people can expect tomorrow with Dodger Stadium? Is Walker Bueler're
going to walk in and put the headphones on and
just say, hey, what's cracking? Guys, Like, how's this gonna go?
Speaker 5 (07:53):
We'll find out. I know the team has a workout
on the field from two to four. There's media availability before,
during an after, I believe, but that also at some point.
Not sure on the timing yet, they haven't announced it.
There's a scheduled to be either scrimmage or sim game
for pictures to get working.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Oh so that video of that and put it up
on social media.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
You cannot do that.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
That's what I'm gonna do. You got nothing on me,
Dodger Nation watch this.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
So we'll have a lot to get into. Matt seemingly
trying to get us suspended every time. When the playoffs
start a couple of years ago, put it on, do
you have one like Kevin Durant, Tommy, I mean, you know, Matt.
It goes back to like these teams with a running
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quarterback that uh that I cover, you know, and all
the all the analysts always act ask the same question.
They say, hey, are you gonna have a spy on
a quarterback? And usually the offensive coordinator or the defensive
coordinator excuse me, says something like, well, we have to
change who the spy is, because how are you going
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to be a spy If you've been identified, you know,
you're not really a spy, then you're more like a cop,
a cop, you know. And then the quarterback, the scrambling quarterback,
you're Randall Cunningham if you will, you know, is gonna
run away from you. So if you have a burner account,
you can't announce it. It's Jude, can Tom Tom?
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Right now?
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Because now you're no longer a spy. Everybody knows it's you, So.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Tuna can't Tom snuck in like underneath the feathered hair
of Bill Shakin.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
I would just suggest something different if you're gonna spy
on the Dodgers tomorrow. But we don't really have a
We don't really have anything set in stone. Huhcates, it
could be like it's.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
A fluid situation, Petros, they're practicing.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
I can't tell you what, guys, we've done this, but
it's like Opening Day, Yeah, where who knows? They say
you're not gonna get anyone, and next thing you know,
Clayton Kershaw grabs the headset and chats with you for
five minutes. Like I could totally see us getting Kershaw
for like an hour. I can see just saying, hey, guys,
I just want to chop it up like Mookie style.
You know how to hang out with you break it
all down.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
The question is, does Kate's if it is like Opening
Day and you could have a real chop up session
and you're gonna be sitting out there with Vassa And
obviously there was a deep embarrassment last time when we
were out on the warning track, Matt, we discussed it.
You weren't there, but we discussed it. Does Kates bring
the seeds as a conversation starter, Hope and Andrew Friedman
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or no have.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
A negative connotation though or somebody.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Well, only in the outfield and no one was around
to see it. Just that one maintenance worker that Kate's
was ashamed to see pick up every little seed one
at a time that him and Colin had dropped. That
was quite embarrassing, and I feel really bad about that.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
That's a good call. I'm glad you mentioned that, pe
because I still have a whole bunch of those seeds
that Friedman likes, oh, that I purchased, So I'll have
to bring those up to ingratiate myself and steal the
attention away from Kate's. Like our boss stole it away
from him.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
He stole it. That's like when you were talking to Bono,
Matt and Jean sand Bloom came in here, cut in.
That was having a great conversation with Bono about antique furniture,
and Jean sand Bloom some executive cut in front of
Matt and told Bono that his new record was great
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and everybody knew the new record sucked.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
That was the end of my conversation.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Thanks a lot, sand Bloom.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
That's what I'm gonna do to Kate's. That's exactly what
I'm gonna do to Kate's.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Bring a bunch though, Matt, And you know what we
can say. We can say we bookended the season we
started with seeds. It led to the best record in baseball.
It read it led and Tawny doing all this, it
led to you, guys, destroying every picture that's ever come
through the.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Door and got a little contentious there.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Now we have seeds at the end.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
What do you think Kate's should I bring? Because I
got all the chat chas, Yeah, I got the I
got the regular cha chas, I've got the coconut, the spiced,
I've got the Kate's favorite caramel flavor that is good.
The Chinese pecan bring them all, Matt. Well, they're huge,
and I had to ship him over here from China
but died off by Jijing ping himself.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
It's one thing to have too much, but we don't
want to run out. It's what if Friedman's like, let
me call Gomes and guess what far haunts here? Right
job interview. He wants to come.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Down, Hey, Gomer, come try these you know, like you know.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
What I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
And he did walk away with the bag last time.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
I full disclosure.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
I gave him to him I really they're just saying
that because you don't want to out him. But he
did walk away with the bag.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
They were a big bag of garlic palm, and I
was really looking forward to him.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
But he took him. You did not give them to him, Kates,
do not defend him.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Well, that's not how Don Martin tells. He flat out
took them. Don Martin tells it like I brought these
in my car, brought him out specially for you.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
I look at this as a distraction, Matt. This would
be a good way to get these guys nerves calmed
a little bit. Maybe they're a little tight during VP
all the extra media there. Padres starting to warm up
on the third bit, the first baseline, and all of
a sudden we're breaking bread as far as seeds and
going differ. Different flavors are going to be there too. Well,
at some point they're gonna have a workout, maybe after
the Dodgers are before. I'm assuming they'll be there at
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some point.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
You think there's gonna be a crossover there usually is, Okay,
all right, well, you're riot, there might be some nerves.
There might be some nerves out there.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I am hopeful that I only ruin fifty percent of
David Besse's relationships. That's what if. I if this is
a successful four hour show with DV and me, I
will only have ruined maybe two to three, maybe four
to five of his relationships.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Well, usually he doesn't need much help.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
They do like him, and I do feel like that I.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Need much help with ruining relationships. Yeah, I mean last
time we were out there, he straight told Groovy Grove that
he didn't step up or showny cahones against the what
was it the padres we were talking about or that
were screaming at him.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
I think it was I don't remember who it was.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Yeah, but it happened. You know, that was a whole thing.
So we'll see what happens tomorrow. We will have the latest.
And don't forget tomorrow's the first day for scam Man.
I bet you're freaking out, Kates. I bet you're losing
your mind.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
How many alarms you got set?
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Kates?
Speaker 5 (14:19):
I have three of them set? Yeah, three alarm set four,
four thirty and four thirty five?
Speaker 2 (14:24):
What else can you guys? Bring us a conversation starter
to Dodger Stadium to kind of loosen guys up. You know,
we have the seeds idea, but what else? You know, what,
what can you maybe an antique catalog mat or something
like put out like some coffee, just some coffee table
books to see if anybody's interested. Maybe a surf book.
Oh you like surfing. I was out this morning.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
If you know what I have, I have a brand new,
yet to be open whittling kit. I can bring that out. Hey,
here's a block of wood. Take this sharp knife and
try to carve a miniature squirrel out of that thing
right there. What do you say, knives? Yeah, you know,
like whittling, Like they don't have to fire you. You
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got that, you know what I mean? Like, I know
exactly what.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
A conversation starter. That's not a whittling kid, you know what?
It was great? So Walker Buehler started whittling, and he
cut off his forefinger and now he can't pitch.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Fantasy football is always a good starter.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
That's a good one, you know.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
Pass was on with Dodger Talk last night talking to
Adrian Gonzalez, and before they got to anything in the conversation,
it was about fantasy football and a trade they made
amongst the two of them yesterday.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
So Michael Grove was the Phillies.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Yes, maybe bring one of your surfboards down there, Matt
and then just like kind of prop it up against
the wall and go look at Chris Taylor and be like, hey,
check this out. See anything you like here? They can
you relate with this? Let's come on over, let's talk
about it.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
You want to touch nine four turbo banana?
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Bring something, Bring some conversation starters, you know, I mean
the seeds. The seeds they carried us through opening day,
not so much to where we were ever invited back.
But now that the season is over and you guys
are going to that workout, I think it's a prime
opportunity to ingratiate ourselves with some conversation starter.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
Well, a good conversation starter would have been like, hey, guys,
check out this tattoo I got, And then I would
have lied Walker.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Buter like, oh yeah, look at my back.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Yeah I got this thing. Checked this out. Well, you
can go get a tat tonight case you can tet
it up, or maybe a six pack of Z six pack. Hey,
remember Zeema.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
How about some zen's pass them out. Got some spearman
over here, guys.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Want some Just bring a pack of Newports. I'll drive
to Arizona tonight.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Why is Blake trying and throwing up all over the pit?
I heard the mayor of Newport was gonna come on.
We got to ask them about those cigarettes.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Yeah, you should be able to sell Newports in Newport.
At least the rest of California is going to be
a communist state. We should at least be able to
buy Menthol Newport Alive with pleasure in Newport Beach.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Now, Matt, I've got this text from the eight one
to eight, and it may be is a general axiom
of all of these shows. It says, just bring yourselves.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Secret text, a line brought to you by your sokel
Toyota dealers.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
We make it easy. It says, just bring yourselves to
smoke some pole.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Oh that will definitely pick me up.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Well, there will be pole smoking and there will be blood.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Yeah, figurative.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
And look at this one. Matt has a whittling kid.
Apparently he does.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
I bought it for our for our scouting adventure, and
then thought better than to break it out with the knives.
I was like, you know, everyone's been drinking. I don't
want somebody to cut their finger off and us get soon,
So I'm just gonna keep it in the backpack.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Show Heyo, Todi's been stabbed through the palm? How could
this happen?
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Some idiot radio guy brought a whittling kid flew out
of his hand and show, hey wanted to make a
wood block version of deco?
Speaker 5 (17:54):
What if you bring a pottery and wheel and they
can make something before they go take a VP and
it's dry by the time they come back.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Yeah, so where they gonna put it in? A killed?
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Where we're gonna get the killed from?
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Okay, sophomore dies had killed explosion? Okay, well, we sure
appreciate everybody listening. We got a tomorrow the show that
the scene is set for the third remote of the
Petrosen Money Showing six shows.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
How about that?
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Just think, Matt, when we go to Rick's tomorrow, we
don't have to have that order of a bean and
cheese burrito and.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Rego I think so gross. But hello, well I gotta
be that way.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Don't you guys use your order of bean and cheese
burrito too? Not with us today?
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Well, I hope you guys enjoy your day. Won't have
me to kick around?
Speaker 4 (18:49):
You have the child in the back seat still sirt. Nope,
not with.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Can I get extra cheese and that bean and cheese?
Speaker 2 (19:02):
You guys get jardia from the chicken. I don't that
bean and cheese is gonna be clean as hell. Five.
Just because the guy enjoys a bean and cheese burrito
shouldn't be ridiculed like he's a child. You know, I'm
very grown up. We'll be right back with David Vasse,
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another adult the very next segment on this Crunching Group,
Thursday Flex Back. We stop at five because the Buccaneers.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Buccaneers on early today, because we're off early today. It
is Thursday night football. Buccaneers Falcons five fifteen pm kickoff,
Dodgers off until Saturday, that is when the playoffs start.
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Dodgers v. Padres.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
David Masse, all of the Dodgers off days with an
inside look at the Dodgers. This is the Vass Report
with David Vasse. Gotta be a great show tomorrow with
David Vasse and Matt helping prepare everybody for a big
weekend of Dodger baseball. Dodgers padres what everybody suspected. He's
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there right now, and there's all kinds of stuff going
on on the periphery and in the middle of things.
David Vass oh spectrum of sports Net MLB Network, but
right here on AMPI seventy LA Sports, your home of
the Dodgers, and at the real underscore DV on Twitter,
Hello Dave, how are you?
Speaker 6 (20:51):
I'm doing great. Today was the first day I got
to lay eyes and talked to Dodger players and staff.
Since the road trip ended in Denver. They've had closed
doors to all media until today. There's going to be
a simulated game in about an hour and it will
be Tony Gonsolin pitching for one side of the Dodgers
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and Bobby Ice. Bobby Miller is in the house and
will be pitching in the simulated game as well. My
understanding talking to Gonsolin, he doesn't believe he'll be on
the NLDS roster, but things can change. But he's trying
to help the team in any way he can. Same
as Bobby Miller. These two guys staying ready to help
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their teammates prepare for the poddres by being available to
throw in these simulated games.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Seems like, well, understandably all the focus on Otani Dave,
but you're close with Mookie. What's your read? How do
you think he's he's feeling considering the way last year's
postseason went and in that game four down in San
Diego went two years ago.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
I've been told Mookie Bets has been the catalyst to
these Dodger watch parties and setting the tone for the
focus the Dodgers have had in preparation for Saturday. And
I've been told that by his teammates. They said they
have not seen this Mookie Bets and his focus in
a long time, which is a good thing for the Dodgers.
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So everybody's looking for him to be a leader. He's
been a leader from what I've been told this week
leading up to the preparation and the level of focus
in determination, from what his teammates have told me, has
been unparalleled since probably twenty twenty when they were in
the bubble and he had that incredible run helping the
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Dodgers win that World Series. So for all the critics
of Mookie Bets doing a podcast all that stuff, my
understanding is he has been setting the tone for his
team all week long.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
David Basse is our guest. Dave you talk to Walk
Bueler a little bit about who the underdog really is
in this one.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
Yeah, Bueler came in and a lot of these guys
don't really want to talk to the media. They're in
and out of their lockers pretty quickly. The clubhouse was
open to us until two o'clock for an hour, and
I was able to stop Buehler since he was part
of the Dodgers Bubble championship team in twenty and I
asked him whether or not he's aware of the fact
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that a lot of people out there are discounting the
Dodgers and really picking the Padres to win this series. Again.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
No, I mean, obviously, anytime you don't win the last
game of the year, it's kind of all equal. And
I think things haven't gone our way in a few years, right,
We haven't really made the World Series run that we
want and all that stuff, So you know, at some
point we got to go play well in October as
opposed to throughout the year. And ye know, I feel
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like this team's put together a little bit different than
they kind of traditionally have been. And then yadd and
a tawny to that. So yeah, I mean, we feel
good about our our team and our group and uh
now it's time to go do it.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
It feels like you guys have made a commitment to
each other to eliminate distractions and to be more focused
than the last couple of years.
Speaker 7 (24:20):
Yeah, I mean the idea of like more focus, I
think is kind of strange, just like nobody's not locked
in in the playoffs and yeah, but yeah, I mean
I think you're going back to like my college days,
Like you're all kind of going through everything together all
the time, and you know, having some of that I
think is obviously really good for us. Obviously, you know,
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we won our won the World Series and twenty in
the bubble and kind of everyone together for forty straight
days or whatever it was, So trying to get some
of that little a little group think a little bit
together I think is great.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
For us yea.
Speaker 6 (24:55):
And that's been the message I got from the players
I spoke to, including Walker Bueler right there, that being
together this much and really being together around each other
more than they have all season long, can only be
a positive. And like I told you guys, you know
in twenty twenty two when they played the Padres, they
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did not really treat it like a postseason series where
they just drove down on their own. My understanding is
the players, led by Mookie Betts, have arranged their own
players only transportation to San Diego, So again, like Walker
Bueller described, being together and going through everything together without
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any distractions.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Dave, how big of a deal do you think? The
Muscrove injury is.
Speaker 6 (25:44):
Huge, huge blow to the Padres. They had everything going
their way and that's the first thing that has not
gone their way in quite some time. And everybody was
talking about how thin the Dodgers starting pitching is. Well,
the Padres starting pitching all of a sudden got very thin.
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So that's a huge blow and really takes away an
advantage the Padres had.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Is there an update on Freddy Freeman's canalope ankle.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
My understanding is Freddy Freeman at some point in time
today is going to try to run the bases for
the first time since screening his right ankle. That is
going to determine a lot. It's going to go down
to the wire, guys as far as whether or not
Freddie Freeman is on this NLDS roster and whether or
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not he even starts at first base in Game one
of the NLDS. My understanding is the Dodgers have not
made that decision. Today. When Freeman attempts to run the bases,
they'll have a better idea of where they're at and
whether or not he can go.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
I don't know if I don't think I asked you
this yesterday, Dave. Is Edgar Enriquez on the going to
be on the roster in your opinion?
Speaker 6 (27:03):
I believe so. He wasn't up here just to just
to go through the motions he's I'm not going to say,
because I talked to Ron Renick about it, who was
on the Angels coaching staff in O two when they
brought up Frankie Rodriguez the last two weeks in September,
Edgardo Enriquez is not as good as Frankie Rodriguez in
two thousand and two. But hitters have not seen that
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one hundred fastball and that eighty eight slider, so that
in itself is a weapon. And he proved that he
can handle pitching in the major leagues. Now, the playoffs
a little bit different of an animal, but I think
the Dodgers liked what they saw, and yes, he will
be on the postseason roster.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
David Vasse is our guest. He'll be here tomorrow for
four hours starting at three o'clock from Dodger Stadium, and
that will be the true prep for the big game
on Saturday and the series against the Andres, the most
anticipated series of the year in the world of Dodger Baseball.
Speaker 6 (28:05):
I'm getting takes from people I don't even have their
their name in my phone asking me if I have
family and friends discounts for tickets.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
What family and friends?
Speaker 6 (28:18):
I mean that's a roundabout way, like, hey, could you
get me two tickets?
Speaker 3 (28:22):
I'll pay for them. I'd gladly pay for them. I'm
just wondering if you have an access point for me.
That's all I'm looking.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
For now, Dave. The fans, the normal fans, you know,
like our friends, like doctor Foreman and stuff, you know,
they think Otani. Because Otani's on that team, that's the
X factor. That's what's going to push the Dodgers over
the over the hunt that they haven't been able to
get over in sometime that Walker Bueler was mentioning to
you in that SoundBite, is that accurate or is that
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just too rudimentary for the real seam heads.
Speaker 6 (28:53):
I actually believe that Will Smith is the X factor
in this series because Will Smith is signed for nine
more years because of his bat from June to the
beginning of September, he was hitting one ninety, but all
of a sudden he has recaptured what made him an
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All Star catcher the last two years, and he's going
to be hitting behind the three MVPs. He's hitting behind
ti Oscar Hernandez and Max Muntsey. There's going to be
a lot of opportunities for Will Smith to come up
with men in scoring position or to come up in
a spot where the pitcher may exhale. So I personally
believe Will Smith is the X factor. If Will Smith
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doesn't hit, it's going to be that much tougher for
the Dodgers to win this series.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Biggest concern about the five died. Let's go the other side, Dave.
You got Fernando Tatis, who is not in that twenty
two series. He is already off to a tord start
to the postseason. And you've got one of the best
rookie campaigns we've seen in a long time from Jackson Merrill.
And he got that thing rolling immediately in the postseason
as well.
Speaker 8 (30:00):
Well.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Those two and just overall concerns with what the Padres
are bringing to Dodger Stadium on Saturday.
Speaker 6 (30:06):
Yeah, Jackson Merrill is, in my opinion, the rookie of
the year for the impact he's made on the Padres
on an everyday basis this year. The catch he made
last night had Brian Snicker marveling at how good this
young rookie is. So yeah. I mean, he's a dangerous
hitter and certainly can be a difference maker. But you know,
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the Padres the biggest reason why they're so successful this season,
and I know Dodger players have commented about this to me.
They don't swing and miss like they have in years past.
That's what makes this offense so difficult to navigate around.
So that's one thing that Dodgers aren't going to have
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to be ready for is to be able to catch
the ball. If they give the Padres extra outs for
a team that doesn't swing and miss, it's going to
be dangerous times.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
The one and only, David, I say, ready, Lloin's girded
for Dodgers Padres. They'll be out there tomorrow at Dodger Stadium.
Is there any thing set in stone about the schedule tomorrow?
Speaker 6 (31:12):
Dave, nothing's set in stone. You gotta be fluid, you
gotta be ready. You got to adapt, just like the
Dodgers in the postseason.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Are you going on scam tomorrow?
Speaker 6 (31:23):
I have not got a text, and you know they
might be fully booked. You know, you never know, Alfredo
Griffin might be coming on.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
That seems like a shot. Well we got four hours, Dave.
Are you at all nervous about my behavior and the
typical response to me amongst professional athletes, they tend to
not like me very much?
Speaker 6 (31:42):
Extremely concerned. I'm just hoping you could just be charger
Matt instead of Petros and money Matt tomorrow. That's all
I'm asking for. Maybe training camp Matt.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
You no, sure?
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Sure? I know what you're saying there? Is it cool
if I bring my dog.
Speaker 6 (31:59):
No, please do not bring your dog McMahon.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Mcmon and just like McMahon, dog is always naked, always.
Speaker 6 (32:11):
That Petro is going to be like Oise State or something.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Carrier Dome.
Speaker 6 (32:19):
I think we're going to be in a better spot Matt.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
And the Carrier Dome.
Speaker 6 (32:25):
Oh do we have Jack Wagner playing in the background
right now?
Speaker 3 (32:28):
It's his birthday?
Speaker 2 (32:29):
How do you like that? Dave?
Speaker 6 (32:31):
I love it, a fellow Libra God.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Have a great night, Dave. Great stuff from our Dodger
reporter David Vasse. More great sports talk, some TEXTSOS, three
things Thursday, next hour. It's off still to Colm on
his crunching group Thursday. Get him Jack.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Big thank you to David vass. Going to be out
at Dodger Stadium with him tomorrow three to seven pm
as the Dodgers work out and intersquad games will be underway.
Huge news likely we'll be shared on Freddie Freeman. It's
kind of the.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
That's not very good, isn't No, that's not what people thought.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
No, not the answer I was expecting. If you missed it,
listen to it on the podcast A five seven LA
Sports through the iHeart Radio app, saying that he's going
to try to run the bases today. See if he
can do that.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
There's so much in question. Yeah, I mean all the
pictures are one thing, but no, Freddy Freeman not great.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
That would not be great.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Well, either way, we still got to continue, and so
do the Dollors, Great sports Tacos all the way till
five o'clock, Falcons, Buccaneers. We've been discussing it throughout the day,
but right now it's time for some listener interactions of
the Digital Fair. The Secret Textos a long The Secret
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text us on brought to you my Toyota. We make
it easy now. This one was interesting, Matt, and I
don't know. Actually there's a couple of these that I
don't know how I feel about them. But this one
had a text through a weight machine, you know, like
a tricep pulldown machine at a gym. Okay, and the
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guy doing tricep pulldowns, you wouldn't be shocked was our
old friend Henrik from Barbecues Galore. Come on, and this
guy writes, cut out the middleman. I will negotiate Barbecues
Galore back into sponsorship with the Pettersen Muney Show. Put
my name in for the gift card drawing. I talked
to Henrick every single morning, you know, And I hate
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to say it, just like Daniel Ricardo, Leaven, Red Bull
and maybe Christian Horner left the door a little bit
of jar. And I know there's no bad feelings between
us and Henry, but he certainly got away from our
brand of great sports talk and went elsewhere. And I
don't know if a guy at the gym is going
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to be able to rectify that or right that wrong.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
In our view, it was it was not a performance
based departure.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Well what was it? How am I not myself?
Speaker 3 (35:29):
It was it was an incentive and fringe benefits based
department departure the people they like the sports, you know.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Well yeah, I mean yeah, But I'm just saying, do
you think it would help us or hurt us if
we have this guy at the gym attack our old sponsor.
Because he's a texto, so it.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
Doesn't sound like he's going to attack him.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
It sounds stands well, you know, I mean pitch attack.
You know, we live in a very fluid time, Matt,
just like the Dodgers situation with any freeman. Look, you know,
one man's pitch is another man's. You know, personal space
being invaded at the gym.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
I need to grab the tongs, grab the tongs, so
I'm I'm all for it. I'd like to have Henrik
back in my life.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Well, of course we all would, Matt, but at what.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
Cost dignity which I have none. So it's like I'm
getting her free here. We got another text so it
doesn't hurt me. None, I ain't got none.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
I'm not sure if you're now look, I don't have
condone this either. I'm not sure if you're taking requests
for people Matt should ship with his widling kid, but
I nominate Brian Vance. No, No, we can't. Look, there
is no doubt that Matt and I have strong negative
feelings toward the one traffic person assigned to our show recently,
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and that is Brian Vance, because it seems like he's
laughing at us. Haha. You terrible lose, you know, and
I'm tired of that. But that being said, he can't
be shipped. That's not a good solution.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
That doesn't work for us.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Like Jock Peterson when Tommy Fam slapped him, violence is
never the answers. That's not okay, even if it's over
a fantasy football problem.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
And a poor job by the commissioner of running.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
The league, and a couple people were pretty geeked up
that Jock Peterson in the Arizona Diamondbacks didn't make the playoffs.
So fast say, couldn't say.
Speaker 8 (37:27):
It's joke tooby choke your calendar. I told you, I
told you you should have got him. What did I say?
Speaker 2 (37:38):
More secret text? So in the postseason on your secret
texto so line route to you by Toyota line.
Speaker 4 (37:47):
You're brought to you by your so called Toyota dealers.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
We make it easy, Petrose. My wife can't stand the
sound of your voice and tells me to turn the
radio off every time she gets in the car, which
I don't. But one thing you two have in common
is a love of bean and cheese burritos. Sounds like
a nice lady, right, sounds like a great lady, Sir.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
Like to think that maybe the two of you's could
make a connection on that front.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
I bet you she's very creative too, given her food
choices are also very creative. Probably, what's the big fuss
over Freeman old horse teeth McGee is useless in the playoffs.
Send his ass back to Atlanta. So he could stop
crying like a bitch. Now that's you know, that's really negative.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
That's not true. He was terrible last year, but the
year prior against San Diego hit damn near four hundred,
Mooky was terrible.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
So there you go. That's not true.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
Yeah, he was bad against Arizona. I think he was
one for ten. At least he had a hit. Mookie
had zero. It's the year of Mookie.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
And this says the Dodger Clubhouse sounds like a real
soap each Keep it soppy, keep it soapy, keep it soapy,
keep it soppy, keep it soppy, keep it soapy, keep
it soppy, keep it soapy, keep it soppy.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
Manny Machado digging into the batter's box. That's your clean
up hitter, clean up hitter, brought to you by Soapy Jos.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
Keep it soppy, keep it soppy, keep it sopy, keep
it soppy, keep it spy, keep it soppy.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
Suppose Superjoles, Super Jos, supper Jos.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
Well, we appreciate you listening to the Patros and Money Show.
We know you have other choices in great sports talk.
Sure do keep your head on straight and we'll be
right back with your word number song of the day
here on this Crunchy Groove on Thursday. And a big
thank you to David Mass for the latest from Dodger Stadium,
discouraging news about Freddy Freeman. Let's help he runs the bases, Okay,